"I thought I had dismissed my past, but one morning it caught up with me."

"It is precisely when the house is on fire, as I said to myself, and there is a good excuse to flee, that one should d…"

"In a broader way, I discovered those those great, simple truths that had escaped me in the kind of magic circle I had…"

"I shall never be so embittered as to discourage the faith of those who are twenty years of age. I believe, though, I …"

"Now I can smile at this fervor. But I do not repudiate it. It is, above all it was, a part of my truth."

"Pain was in the order of things and restored the much-scoffed-at-discipline. And it was just such a discipline that I…"

"Prisons, like churches, always escape the bombings."

"I decided to take a risk, not out of pride, but simply because it was only by a certain frankness that I could keep m…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness."